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The article is a case of rose-coloured glassed. It helps that FLOPS per core has essentially flatlined since 2006. I’m sure Nintendo realise that’s the main rea
by bottled_poe 7y ago
The article is a case of rose-coloured glassed. It helps that FLOPS per core has essentially flatlined since 2006. I’m sure Nintendo realise that’s the main reason for the hardware choices.
https://www.quora.com/What-makes-CPU-models-increasingly-faster-today-How-come-there-are-so-many-small-improvements-but-no-major-ones https://www.quora.com/What-makes-CPU-models-increasingly-fas...
- uncletaco 7y agoThey've followed this philosophy since at lea st the first Gameboy though. How do FLOPS essentially flatlining since 2006 account for that?
- mattl 7y agoBefore that even, with the Game and Watch handhelds.
- mwcampbell 7y agoI wonder if the use of the 65C816 processor in the SNES (released in 1991, at least in America) also qualifies.